In the era of digital information, the value of data resides not only in its volume and quality, but also in the additional information that can be inferred from the combination (a...
Daniele Braga, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Michael Gr...
With the consolidation of the Internet and other computer networks, the need of sophisticated systems to retrieve information increased enormously. In these networks, information ...
Rafael T. de Sousa Jr., Alexandre C. V. de Oliveir...
Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the object model as federating model. This paper gives an overview of the XMLMedia system, a ...
— Many open source software (OSS) development projects use tools and models that come from heterogeneous sources. A project manager, who wants to analyze indicators for the state...
Software infrastructures and applications more and more must deal with data available in a variety of different storage engines, accessible through a multitude of protocols and in...
Marc Van Cappellen, Wouter Cordewiner, Carlo Innoc...